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FEATURES 72

OCULUS QUEST

In the California desert, a Hollywood agent’s spectacular new home comes into cinematic focus.

BY ALEXANDRA LANGE DESIGNER KOVAC DESIGN STUDIO

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REWRITING HISTORY

A newly unveiled period room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an imagined Black home in New York City.

BY KIMBERLY DREW

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THE MEASURE OF THINGS

How one architect made the most of 800 square feet in his enthusiastic redo of a Palm Beach house.

BY LAUREN MECHLING ARCHITECT LEE F. MINDEL

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PACK A PUNCH These are the jewels you need for your next journey, whether you’re St. Barts–bound or just staycationing in style.

BY SEAN SANTIAGO

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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

On a windswept coast of England, a former watchtower is converted into a family getaway with views for miles and miles.

BY BECKY SUNSHINE DESIGNER STUDIO MACKERETH

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READING THE CLASSICS

Inside the living room of an 800-square-foot Palm Beach home designed by architect Lee F. Mindel, page 86.

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EDITOR’S LETTER 27

WHAT’S HOT

The best design discoveries 30

TRUTH IN DECORATING

Christine Gachot and Elliott Barnes take stock of the season’s top bar carts.

BY MELISSA FELDMAN

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SO COURANT

A peek inside Fanny’s, the new restaurant at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures 38

HOUSE CALL

After years of renovating, a creative couple moves into their forever apartment.

BY LAURA RASKIN

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SPOTLIGHT

A timeless new collection from Roberto Coin nods to an enduring love story set in an ancient Italian city.

PRESENTED BY ROBERTO COIN

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APPRAISAL

Inside a Christie’s auction of historic American designs from the revered Goodman collection.

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A plate by Italian ceramist Nicola Fasano and a Richard Brendon glass, page 27.

ON THE COVER A Hollywood agent’s retreat in La Quinta, California, designed by Kovac Design Studio.

PHOTOGR APH BY ROGER DAVIES

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A look at the burgeoning design career of former filmmaker Little Wing Lee

See how a statement mantel can light your fire and rev up the romance in any room.

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A sitting area outside Todd Feldman’s home in La Quinta, California, which was designed by Kovac Design Studio.

retreat in California crafted by Kovac Design Studio, certainly brings that drama.

But as writer Alexandra Lange explores in her piece, the space also finds surprising moments of intimacy despite, and occasionally because of, its grand scale. Speaking of grand, this issue includes a story my team is incredibly proud to present: a look at a new, first-of-its-kind period room at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. For the exhibition “Before Yesterday We Could Fly,” a group of about a dozen artists, designers, and creatives contributed everything from furniture to lighting to objects to create a space that represents an “Afrofuturist” period room. It imagines a future free from the racism and displacement that made way for Central Park in the 19th century, when a thriving Black village nearby was razed, its land seized through eminent domain. The wallpaper, pottery, chairs, artworks, and other domestic items in the exhibition embody one of the missions of this magazine: acknowledging the power of design objects to tell new stories and boldly reframe old ones. Such a reenvisioning is, perhaps, the greatest escape of all. ◾ Asad Syrkett, Editor in Chief elledecor@hearst.com @as4d

PORTR AIT: NAIMA GREEN; EX TERIOR: ROGER DAVIES

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you, but my conversations with family and friends about the end of 2021 and the beginning of a new year have taken on an air of the surreal. Have we actually made it to this point? Already? Among those of us (like me) for whom March 2020 feels as if it were yesterday, rounding the corner into 2022 seems unthinkable. And yet as someone who loves interiors, I feel there’s so much to look forward to as winter descends on the Northern Hemisphere: slowing down, cozying up, and reconnecting with loved ones off-screen, in the real world. For our Winter 2022 Escapes Issue, we’re celebrating all those things and more—hot new hotels and restaurants; audacious, beautiful, and downright weird host gifts; and bold jewelry for soiree—and getaway— season. We also shine our spotlight on homes that offer sanctuary, calm, and, because it’s E L L E DECOR , no small dose of spectacle. Our cover stor y, a f ilm agent’s high-desert

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Rock your world with a soup tureen by Danish design duo Pettersen & Hein—the Flintstones-chic exterior is actually textured concrete.

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The Art of Giving

Any of these eight unique host gifts will make an outsize impression—and (hopefully) secure your next party invite.

Plus: Bold design in Miami Beach.

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London-based Richard Brendon tapped master glassblower Simon Moore for the London 1650 collection, inspired by antique glassware from its namesake year. 7• dia. X 10• h. and 3• dia. X 4• h.;

Add craftsmanship to the table with this woven-palm El Cocuy mini bread basket, handmade by Colombian artisans for the fashion designer Johanna Ortiz.

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Danish designer Ida Elke Kallehave uses beeswax, silver, and natural fibers for her newest Dual Hide IV objets for the Future Perfect.

4.5• w. X 5.5• d. X 9• h.; $2,800 for a set of two. thefutureperfect.com

With discarded pottery as his medium, Italian ceramist Nicola Fasano turns trash into treasure with these kaleidoscopic handpainted plates. 10• dia.; $70 to $150 each. rentrayage.com

Brazil-based designer Silvia Furmanovich brings her elaborate jewelry designs home in the form of this wood marquetry Cherry Blossom hand mirror. $475.

Everyone’s favorite Italian game, bocce, gets a Tiffany & Co. upgrade with a ball set in the company’s signature blue, with carrying case to match. Game on!

Using 200-year-old wood procured from restoration projects in Central Mexico, designer Mike Diaz puts a fantastical twist on the familiar forms of these candlesticks.

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Welcome to Miami For Art Basel this year, Ralph Pucci commissioned ten 17-foot murals for the exterior of his showroom by artist Rebecca Moses to tease her latest show, Bubblegum, Lipstick, and Hope, a bright exhibition of 200 portraits of women. The photographer Juan Pablo Castro’s newest series, black-and-white images inspired by Helmut Newton, will also be on view. On the home front, Pucci commissioned Stefan Bishop to continue his exploration into organic forms and materiality with new sculptural pieces like the Orka No. 12 side table (at right). 30• w. X 24• d. X 20.5• h.; $26,400. ralphpucci.com 28

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2. Route Black by Enrico Pellizzoni

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4. Diligence by Hermès

5. 17313 by Enis Karavil

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CG: A little space-age fun

This is epic! It would fit seamlessly into any residential project.

I could see this in the executive suites of Lever House.

of metal and natural fibers in this 1970sinspired cart.

CG: Love the caning. That timeless material with a contemporary silhouette is a pleasant contrast.

could be a great pop in a more austere space.

E B: I’m envisioning Jacques Tati pushing this through the Arpel house in an outtake of Mon Oncle.

E B: The buggy-style wheels really tie this piece to the equestrian brand codes of Hermès.

CG: Between the basket weave and the leather accents, this one is all about craftsmanship.

CG: The tiered ash veneer legs are a fun reference to Art Deco. Someone make me a martini, stat!

E B: It’s almost like architecture on wheels. The inverted arches bring to mind the art of De Chirico.

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E B: I can imagine it on a stone-covered terrace surrounded entirely by Loom chairs.

CG: It’s so cute and super affordable.

CG: I love that this is made of recycled material. The Pop aesthetic would be great in an outdoor setting.

E B: There is something very innocent and playful about this piece.

E B: The light wood struc-

curved design is pretty, and the casters add an industrial edge.

E B: Timeless Italian modernism in leather, metal, and glass.

35• w. X 18• d. X 32• h.; $499. cb2.com

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ture accented by thin metal details recalls the work of Raymond Loewy.

CG: A well-executed, contemporary take on a vintage design.

37• w. X 8• d. X 35• h.; $4,615. arteriorshome.com

CG: The streamlined,

32.5• w. X 18• d. X 35.5• h.; $9,900. poltronafrau.com

10. Serpents by Zelouf & Bell E B: The thin, polished metal legs almost disappear, letting the upper shelf float visually.

CG: The pullout tables are sweet, and the snake marquetry adds to the glamour.

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SO COURANT

Are You Being Served?

Inside Fanny’s, the buzzy restaurant at the new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Plus: The season’s design-world hot spots.

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OR THE DESIGNERS STEVEN

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Johanknecht and Roman Alonso of Commune, Fanny’s, the all-day restaurant at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, is the kind of communal space we need now.

Within what was formerly the landmarked May Company department store, completed in 1939, the museum was respectfully renovated by architects Renzo Piano and the late Osvaldo Maiozzi into a raw, deconstructed campus. Yet the brief from Fanny’s managing partners, Bill Chait and Carl Schuster, demanded comfort, luxury, and a throwback interior that also looks optimistically forward, marrying glamour and industry in a way that befits its clientele.

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material choices, studied references, and a sense of humor. “It was one of the more challenging things in this project,” Johanknecht says. “But it was also what most excited us—how to hit this note that encompassed all of these different ideas.”

Inspired by Old Hollywood haunts like the Brown Derby and Perino’s, Commune developed a lighting scheme with the designer Sean O’Connor to visually lower the 30-foot ceilings, commissioning Atelier de Troupe to create curved, period-agnostic lamps for the booths.

Sheer curtains by artist Adam Pogue reference the scrims used in set design, dividing the 10,000-square-foot space while allowing light to filter throughout.

The exuberant zinc-topped bar nods to Art Deco movie marquees, while the tabletops are clad in linoleum, which appears pleasingly anachronistic and feels like leather to the touch. It’s a considered execution that stokes the appetite as much as the imagination, fittingly cinematic in scope yet human in scale. Just don’t forget to make a reservation. ◾

ABOVE: Commune’s Roman

Alonso and Steven Johanknecht.

TOP: The wall mural in Fanny’s

is by Konstantin Kakanias.

Wendy Stark, granddaughter of restaurant eponym Fanny Brice, lent the archival costume sketches on the wall of the mezzanine, as well as photos and memorabilia.

FROM TOP: YOSHIHIRO MAKINO, STEPHEN KENT JOHNSON

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SO COURANT A cityscape as seen from Cheval Blanc Paris, designed by Peter Marino.

“Consideration of views was central to the design.”

–PETER MARINO ON CHEVAL BLANC PARIS The Evening Bar at Pendry Manhattan West, designed by Gachot Studios.

Wes Anderson’s new Cygnus carriage for British Pullman travels from London to destinations throughout the U.K.

Global Entry

• Stay at Cheval Blanc Paris, in the French capital’s recently restored La Samaritaine complex. Its 72 rooms, four restaurants, and Dior-branded spa feature interior design by Peter Marino. chevalblanc.com • Stateside, revelers can pop by the Gachot Studios–designed bar at Pendry Manhattan West, anchored by Nancy Lorenz’s stunning gold leaf, lacquer, and pearl inlay artwork. pendry.com • Fancy a getaway that’s a bit more old-fashioned? Climb aboard the Cygnus carriage, designed by filmmaker Wes Anderson for Belmond’s British Pullman train. Marquetry, silver leaf, and a swan-shaped cooler—oh, my! This carriage marriage is, as expected, a feast for the eyes. belmond.com • Weary travelers who’d prefer to bring hotel living home need look no further than B.B. for Reschio, a line of bespoke furnishings drawn from the interiors of the Hotel Castello di Reschio in Umbria, Italy. bbforreschio.com 36

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The Poggibonsi table lamp and Etruscan window seat (below), from B.B. for Reschio.

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HOUSE CALL

Home at Last After years of renovating, a creative couple moves into their forever apartment.

BY L AUR A R ASKIN PH OTOGR APHS BY

DOUGL AS FRIE DM AN

In the living room of interior designer David Lawrence and architect Carlos Garciavelez’s prewar apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the vintage Edward Wormley sofa from Wyeth is covered in a linen by Holland & Sherry, the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair is from Knoll, and the vintage Jacques Adnet cocktail table is from Magen H Gallery. The rug is custom by the designers from their studio Carlos David, and the photograph is by Garciavelez. For details, see Resources.

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HOUSE CALL The Pierre Chapo stools and Kaare Klint sconces in the living room are vintage, the shelves are by Vitsoe, and the artworks (from left) are by Robert Motherwell and Sonia Delaunay.

The vintage console is by Jacques Adnet, and the upholstered stool is from Maison Gerard. The artwork is

by Brendan Smith.

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Carlos Garciavelez (left) and David Lawrence in the living room. The artworks are by Donald Sultan.

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that architect Carlos Garciavelez and interior designer David L aw rence col labo rated on was the gut renovation of a friend’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. “There was some hesitation because we’re also a couple,” Lawrence says, but it quickly became clear that the sum of their talents was greater than what they could achieve separately. “Carlos is a trained creative, and I am an editor. Carlos has 20,000 ideas, and I’m like, ‘Slow your roll!’” In other words, they’re perfect creative foils.

The partners, who together r un the design studio Ca rlos David, agree that the epitome of their synergy and their new calling card is the redesigned Upper West Side apartment they share.

The result is an incubator for

long-gestating ideas that reflect their cross-disciplinary backgrounds, as well as a home for their collection of midcentury French, American, and Italian design, vintage fashion, and eclectic artwork by friends and colleagues whose careers have ascended along with their own. (Lolo the Lhasa Apso is the third resident.)

About five years ago, Lawrence and Garciavelez fell in love with the classic prewar apartment, one block from Central Park.

It seduced them with original details, from the high ceilings and herringbone wood floors to the plaster walls, cove moldings, and northern, eastern, and western exposures. They completed a “modified” gut renovation and spruce-up about two years ago and had just begun demolition on the main bathroom when the COV ID -19 pa ndemic forced

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In the TV room, the custom sofa is in a Holland & Sherry linen, the Danish chair is vintage, and the custom ottoman is in a Pierre Frey fabric. The artwork is by Ricardo Luévanos.

The banquette and wallcovering in the breakfast room are covered in a Thevenon fabric, and the antique Swedish dining chairs are in a Pierre Frey velvet. The artwork is

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them to halt construction. After the pause, they resumed the project, using the fear and inertia they experienced during the pandemic as inspiration to “make our world perfect,” Lawrence says. Work started in the living room, a space that takes in ample daylight from a bay window; less about decoration and more about curation, it now showcases prized pieces of art and furniture they’ve acquired over the years. There are two vintage black leather Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chairs, gifts from Garciavelez’s father when Garciavelez graduated from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. They also had a vintage Edward Wormley sofa on a plinth base reupholstered in woven linen. It sits under a monumental photograph of an abandoned modernist building in Argentina taken

by Garciavelez during a fellowship in South America.

After working as an architect in his native Mexico and in New York, Garciavelez left the practice for stints in fashion, ultimately starting his own menswear brand. He returned to architecture but hasn’t left fashion behind.

Drawing on his intimate knowledge of the talent hidden in New York City’s Garment District, he and Lawrence are developing a line of custom upholstery and fabrics. The designers’ TV room, for example, is a blush and gold cocoon swathed in a silk taffeta and gold leaf wallcovering that Garciavelez modeled after Roberto Burle Marx’s iconic tiles for his studio in Rio de Janeiro.

Similarly, the designers created an immersive dining nook in the kitchen by covering a wall and custom-made banquette in the same Thevenon canvas, featuring macaws amid a tangled jungle. Entering their handsome charcoal-hued bedroom is like walking into a well-tailored suit, with its Ralph Lauren Home cashmere-and-wool pinstripe adorning the walls.

Elsewhere, reupholstered antique pieces continue to mix with a bold pattern or unexpected detail to create discrete transitions, such as the marble-lined doorframe that separates the apartment entry from the living room. “There’s a lot of consensus that happened here that helped us respect each other,” Garciavelez says. “You choose your battles. The result is even richer than you thought.”

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LE F T: The porcelain sink in the main bathroom is by Villeroy &

Boch, the fittings and wall tiles are by Waterworks, and the wallcovering is by Maya Romanoff. ABOVE: The sconce is from Circa Lighting, and the photograph is by Garciavelez.

In the main bedroom, the bed is custom, the wallcovering is by Ralph Lauren Home, and the Serge Mouille pendant is from Design Within Reach. The curtain is of a Loro Piana fabric. The photographs (from left) are by Stuart Winecoff and Garciavelez.

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narratives for the entirety of her career. A former documentary film director, she pivoted to design after a summer spent in Harvard’s landscape architecture program, then went on to obtain a master’s degree in interior design from the Pratt Institute in New York City. Today, her focus is on creating spaces where the public lives out its own story.

Currently, Lee, the design director of Ace Hotel group’s Atelier Ace, is putting the final touches on Ace Toronto, opening in early 2022, while refining her architectural mission and expanding her interior design practice, Studio & Projects. “We designers are not artists.

We can’t just do whatever we feel like doing,” she says. “The goal is to make functional, beautiful spaces that people feel good in.”

Lee hits this target through a mix of compassion, community, and collaboration. Time at SOM and the Rockwell Group, followed by a stint designing at the National Museum of African American History & Culture, gave her the experience she needed to put her principles into action through the foundation of the collective Black Folks in Design in 2017.

She completed Sister City, her first job for Ace Hotels, and the Brooklyn restaurant Bar Bête, in 2019. Both spaces showcase a cozy and uncomplicated aesthetic, proving that Lee knows how to say a lot with very little.

Fittingly, most of her inspiration comes from outside the world of design—Julie Dash’s 1991 film Daughters of the Dust is one touch point.

Lee is now finalizing plans for Harlem’s new National Black Theater, which pulls on her academic background in African American history and theatrical arts, as well as on her past professional and personal experiences. “My most successful and interesting design projects are those that incorporate all disciplines of design,” Lee says. “There is room for it all. Nothing needs to take over the world.” —Camille Okhio

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Take, for example, the Blue Python necklace, which appears scarcely like its reptilian namesake until closer inspection reveals hundreds of sapphires and diamonds set side by side to mimic the scales of a snake. It’s a figurative expression of the serpent that deftly illustrates Harry Winston’s prowess for culling the soft and supple from unyielding stone, without a visible trace of the platinum setting—all the better to keep eyes on the 15-carat cornflower blue sapphire drop.

Elsewhere in the collection, the brand nods to nature’s mystical side in rings set with vibrant gemstones that possess a rare trait known as asterism, a star-shaped pattern of reflected light, and a Betta Fish brooch with diamond fins that fan in and out depending on the exuberance of the wearer. Finally, a series of artistic bird brooches celebrates the beauty of flight. Composed of hundreds of gemstones, diamonds, and onyx, each expertly cut and positioned to resemble wings that delicately move, it’s the animal kingdom, polished to perfection. —Jill Newman 50

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Many Splendored Things A timeless new collection from Roberto Coin nods to an enduring love story set in an ancient Italian city.

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regular pilgrims to the northern Italian city of Verona, home to a first-century Roman arena that still resounds with performa nces of Aida a nd Carmen during the annual opera festival as well as atmospheric medieval churches that possess a sacramental pull. Still, Shakespeare bears most of the responsibility for the town’s romantic reputation: His tale of doomed lovers Romeo and Juliet was famously set within its ancient walls. More than four centuries later, their legacy lives on in Roberto Coin’s Love in Verona collection, comprising luminous rings, bangles, earrings, and pendants, all bearing a stylized floral motif with four petals, a symbol of love in all its incarnations. Coin, whose atelier is in nearby Vicenza, the cradle of Italy’s jewelry tradition, fashions each object with materials—diamonds, rubies, emeralds, and 18-karat gold—that would have been treasured during the Bard’s time, too. Continuous wear is advisable to avoid the sorrow, sweet or otherwise, of parting with these pieces. —Tanya Dukes CLOC K WISE FROM TOP LE F T: Necklace in 18-karat gold and

diamonds, $8,300. Zodiac medallion in 18-karat gold, diamonds, and lapis, $7,900. Necklace in 18-karat gold, diamonds, jade, and malachite, $6,000. Large disc ring in 18-karat gold, $5,000.

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GOES GREEN The October 5 EARTH event served as a culmination and celebration of the first-ever ELLE Decor sustainable initiative. Held at the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, it featured green-inspired cocktails and canapés, music by DJ Isaac Likes, and eco-conscious sponsor activations from our partners, plus incredible views of the NYC skyline.

Hand-painted fl orals display the Sherwin-Williams® Living Well™ collection’s Inspire palette, a mix of colors carefully chosen to invite a sense of comfort, style, and well-being into your home. The Living Well collection also includes two products that expand the popular SuperPaint® line with added air purifying and sanitizing technologies.

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Guests enjoyed produce-rich smoothies from Beko inspired by the appliance maker’s commitment to off ering cooking, cooling, and cleaning products that empower Americans to live healthier, more sustainable lives, and to being a net-zero carbon manufacturer.

Sustainability made simple: a harvest table presented by The Container Store. From handwoven water hyacinth and cotton canvas to maize husk and bamboo, The Container Store utilizes renewable resources and recycled materials for beautiful and practical sustainable storage solutions.

Guests were welcomed by FLOR’s Boardwalk carpet in Kale. With thoughtfully sourced materials and turning recycled nylon into beautiful yarns for area rugs, FLOR’s new and improved backing, CQuest™GB, is made of post-consumer carpet tiles, bio-based elements, and pre-consumer recycled materials that are net carbon negative.

The lounge was presented by home furnishings retailer Arhaus. Arhaus artisans use sustainably sourced, reclaimed, and recycled materials as much as possible. From harvesting wood mango trees that no longer produce fruit to repurposing recycled copper, Arhaus takes pride in giving new life to products that would otherwise be discarded.

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The iconic Aeron Chair was auctioned off by Herman Miller, a founding member of NextWave Plastics, a consortium working to develop the first global network of ocean-bound plastic supply chains. By integrating this transformed plastic into products and processes, they are reducing the volume of plastic waste, little by little.

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American Beauty Inside Christie’s auction of historic U.S. designs from the revered Goodman collection.

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immediately come to mind when thinking of Early American design. The images seared into our consciousness by classic books and Oscarbait period films are dark in tone, but the early years of the nation were more vivid and inventive than one might expect. On January 20, Christie’s will auction off a collection of objects brought together to prove just that.

The lots showcase a wide range of American craft, with fanciful surface treatments and saturated tones. The items were acquired by the late Peter and Barbara Goodman, who resided in two historic homes (in Harrison, New York, and Mill River, Massachusetts), where they exhibited their vast collection.

Among the works is a set of 12 oval-shaped, rainbow-colored Shaker boxes that date to the 19th century and whose purpose might have been to store accessories. Matching the reds and teals of the boxes is a poplar Federal-era blanket chest adorned with f lowers and hearts. And while this style of decorative painting was in use, craftsmen utilized more abstract methods to decorate other case goods, like a pine chest, whose surface carries dynamic swirls and curlicues.

The star of the auction is Woman with Pink Ribbons by Ammi Phillips, a 19t h-cent u r y Ea st Coa st por tra it painter. His sitter leans slightly forward in a moss-green dress, while a mop hat and wide ribbon flutter around her ears. She’s sitting in an upholstered chaise, but one could imagine a dignified Windsor chair, like the painted black maple one available in the sale, placed just beyond view. Phillips’s animated subject is a perfect figure to activate the colorful, creative interiors of her time. These and other works from the Goodman collection point to periods in American design that centered craft and creation—and fostered a respect for patience and process. Colorful decorative goods that remain functional 200 years on? That’s an American legacy we can all get excited about. —Camille Okhio

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Shaker boxes. A 19thcentury painted poplar chest. Woman with Pink Ribbons by Ammi Phillips. A painted pine chest of drawers. A maple Windsor chair.

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In actress Marisa Tomei’s New York City apartment, a marble mantel with a modernist edge.

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Victorian architects were huge fans of them; so were modernists like Frank Lloyd Wright; and without those dangling, cocoonlike fixtures from California brand Malm, would the 1960s even have happened? Fireplaces are a perennial favorite for residential interiors, and it’s easy to understand why. As Spanish architect and historian Luis Fernández-Galiano once wrote: “What is a house but a hearth?”

Today, contemporary designers are still fanning the flames, preserving and celebrating fireplaces and the infrastructure that surrounds them—in particular the mantelpiece, the most prominent as well as the most versatile element of the traditional hearthside.

For her new villa on the French Riviera, designer India Mahdavi scooped up a giant yellow glazed mantelpiece created by Italian artist Giuseppe Ducrot, giving her tranquil living room a dramatic focal point. Pritzker Prize–winning architect Alejandro Aravena’s Ocho Quebradas, a 2019 vacation home in Los Vilos, Chile, comprises a pair of concrete towers leaning over an exposed fire pit, essentially making the whole house one giant mantel. Even the quirkiest corners of the field are getting in on the act: The 250-square-foot Road-Haus, the latest model from luxury mobile homebuilder Wheelhaus, includes a small gas or electric fireplace topped by a rustic wooden shelf—the perfect place to set your coffee before you walk off into the wilderness.

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—Ingrid Abramovitch “While the firebox may be fake, the mantel most definitely should not be,” says designer Alyssa Kapito. “I love investing in incredible vintage marble ones. They have beautiful pieces at Jamb in London.”

“The key is what you do with the opening,” says architectural salvage go-to Evan Blum, owner of New York–based Demolition Depot.

“Cover it with a castiron summer front, which they used in Victorian days.”

“If you paint the inside black and put a fire screen in front of it, no one will ever know it’s fake,” Kapito says.

When you must have a crackling flame, ventless systems from companies like Hearth Cabinet look surprisingly authentic.

Andre Herrero) of American firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero (CH&H). Citing 20th-century greats like Diego Giacometti and Serge Roche, Charlap Hyman points to fire decor as a place where designers can make “an artistic, expressive statement”; the trick, he says, is to use the mantelpiece as a counterweight, an opportunity to either impose a degree of symmetry and hierarchy on a space or to disrupt it with an offbeat accent. For a new project in California, CH&H acquired an Art Nouveau mantelpiece, looking to bring an ornamental note to an otherwise orderly composition. Elsewhere, inside a newly built vacation home on Long Island, the designers were tasked with crafting a space to complement a fluted fireplace created by New York studio SO-IL. The interiors specialists responded with a soft, breezy living and dining room that plays off the chimney’s solidity.

“With something so classical, we felt there had to be something decorative and light nearby,” Charlap Hyman says.

Katie Maine, of Maine Design, is another mantel enthusiast. “Having one redirects the house, giving it gravity and strength,” she says. Like Charlap Hyman, Maine has her own honor roll of great fireplace designers: Jean Royère, whose minimal mantels in brick and wood are paragons of midcentury refinement, and artist David Wiseman, whose contemporary fireplaces vibrate with sculptural Space-age mantelpiece drama in a 1956 John Lautner house in Los Angeles with interiors by Jamie Bush.

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BUILDER detail. For Maine, who’s presently installing a new fireplace in a home in Montecito, California, the difficulty can come in navigating a client’s expectations, getting them to see the mantel’s potential as something more than a functional frame. “There might be something they’d like,” she says, “but it has to work with the project.” In another interior, in Los Angeles, Maine is ripping out a series of developer-built mantels that were simply too big and too brash, failing to harmonize with the elegant seaside setting.

While fireplaces have always been in vogue, there could be a reason they appear particularly popular right now.

Designer Aamir Khandwala has included mantelpieces in recent projects ranging from summer houses to Manhattan apartments, and in his view they serve an all-important role. “Mantels represent this ideal of warmth and coziness,” Khandwala says. “They give us a place to spend time with the people we love”—time that has been in especially short supply during the pandemic, when so many of us have been separated from friends and family. Whenever COVID-19 dissipates, we might expect to see more high-design mantels, with people once again crowding together around the glowing heart of the domestic landscape. ◾ Lime green contrast in Jean-Philippe Demeyer’s house on the outskirts of Bruges, Belgium.

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The entry of Todd Feldman’s home in La Quinta, California, which was designed by Kovac Design Studio. Turn the page for more.

Interiors that offer sanctuary—and drama. Bold jewels for a high-design getaway. And an exclusive look at a first-of-its-kind museum exhibition where Black artists and designers take flight.

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OCULUS QUEST

In California’s high desert, a Hollywood agent’s spectacular new home brings light and shadow into cinematic focus.

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The entry to Todd Feldman’s retreat in La Quinta, California, which was designed

by Los Angeles–based Kovac Design Studio.

The canopy is foamed aluminum by Alusion, the facade is Portland cement plaster, and the water feature is lined in absolute black granite. For details, see Resources.

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to make a getaway truly relaxing? For some people, it’s communing with nature. For other travelers, it’s spa services. For weekenders, it can be a home away from home. For Todd Feldman, a film and television agent at Creative Artists Agency, it was not having to choose. His seven-bedroom, 9,200-square-foot vacation house at the private Madison Club in La Quinta, California, designed by Kovac Design Studio and completed in 2020, is Palm Springs pad as boutique hotel, with Mad Men flourishes and a museum-worthy outdoor canopy, a bar ready for Out of Sight–level seduction, and a concession stand stocked for Fight Night.

“Often, when you’re lucky enough to be invited to someone’s place, there is that little bit of awkwardness,” Feldman says. “You get up in the morning, and if you are an early riser like I am, you’re standing there by the coffee machine and you haven’t yet brushed your teeth. Or even when you’re having a great night, some people want to go to bed a little earlier. There’s a push-pull.”

Kovac Design Studio’s Michael Kovac and Thomas Schneider ensured there would be neither late-night nor early-morning awkward-

ness by laying out the house as a central, double-height gathering space with flanking bedrooms, separated by outdoor walkways and planted courtyards for visual and sonic privacy. Each “casita” has its own bathroom, coffeemaker, and mini fridge, as well as an outdoor shower; Feldman had fun stocking them with his favorite products, from oat milk to Fever Tree cocktail mixers. Downstairs, there’s a generous gym with adjacent massage studio and locker room. But the main event is a six-bed, walnut-paneled bunk room, beloved by Feldman’s nine-year-old son but also fun for adult slumber parties. (Every bunk is outfitted with a charging port, a reading light, and a beverage shelf.) “It can be juice boxes or rosé in the fridge down there,” says Feldman, depending on the age of the guests in residence.

The five-part ensemble is tied together by the 5,000-square-foot sunshade, made of panels of an off-the-shelf aluminum foam product originally developed as an acoustic material. “We hoped initially to do a canopy modeled on a cholla cactus skeleton,” Kovac says. “We did a lot of research on how we could get this pattern, but then budget reality intruded.” A solution came when they looked up, noticing the material of the conference room ceiling in their office. The result is striking in the 74

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The great room overlooks the pool terrace and Madison Club golf course.

The Warren Platner chairs and stool (right) are by Knoll, and the Antonio Citterio daybed is by B&B Italia. On the terrace, the sectional is by Gloster, and the grill is by Wolf.

OPPOSITE: The entry’s pivot door is in oilrubbed bronze, and the Jens Risom bench is from Design Within Reach.

desert’s penetrating light, casting dappled shadows on the sand-colored walls and poured concrete floors and living up to its inspiration—Jean Nouvel’s Louvre Abu Dhabi. In the evening, a programmed lighting system by Lux Populi synced to sundown slowly brings up the warm lights embedded in the canopy, creating a candlelit glow from above.

The shade also frames an unimpeded vista of the mountains over the golf course onto which the property backs. (“It’s kind of ironic, since Todd is not a golfer,” Kovac says, “but it is fun for his friends.”) If the mountain view is reminiscent of “a wide-screen cinema,” as Kovac puts it, the oculus in front is more of a James Turrell moment, with the architecture focusing and filtering the light emanating from above. “If there’s too much sky, it dilutes your attention,” he notes.

Inside the house, warm tones, midcentury furniture, and tactile fabrics predominate, from the bronze mesh curtains to a sprawling velvet Patricia Urquiola Tufty Time sofa to the vintage Pierre Paulin chairs reupholstered in wool. The walls are made of integral plaster in a shade that was developed on-site by looking at the colors of the desert, because “big expanses of white plaster become fatiguing,” Kovac says. Indoor-outdoor fabrics were also specified in many places, given

the easy back-and-forth between poolside and inside when the back wall is left open, as it is most of the time.

The 10-by-17-foot screen in the upstairs media room is really a motorized wall, which swings out to reveal a balcony awaiting a DJ and the generous surface for projecting films. Feldman is as likely to have basketball or Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts playing as he is to be screening French cinema classics, making this the desert’s most fabulous sports bar.

What has surprised Feldman most about the house? “It was always designed to be both a vacation home and one for entertaining,” he says. “But during the pandemic, it was my primary residence for a lot of that time. It just has this warmth and calmness to it. The sunsets and the balmy nights, sitting out there by the pool—it is just really peaceful.” ◾ ELLE DECOR

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With views of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto mountains, the south primary suite has a Jesse bed, a Studio Piet Boon sofa, and a side table by Luca Nichetto. The desk is by BoConcept, and the chair is by Eero Saarinen for Knoll. BE LOW, FROM LE F T: A passage between the main house and guest bedrooms. The north wing’s primary suite has Poliform armchairs, a side table by Setsu & Shinobu Ito, a vintage Italian floor lamp, and artwork by Jake Longstreth.

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The bathroom in one of the two primary suites has an Agape tub, sink fittings by Axor, and a custom walnut and limestone vanity. The stool is

by Frama, and the ceiling is clad in walnut veneer.

The outdoor area features a topiary pine and a path that leads to the pool.

In the lounge, stools by RH, Restoration Hardware frame a custom bar of American black walnut.

The mesh curtains are

by Whiting & Davis.

ABOVE: The entertainment room’s sectional is in a Maharam velvet, and the built-in bunk beds are made of walnut.

Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is projected on a custom motorized screen in the great room, which features a floating theater with a glass railing over a curtained bar area.

The seating area’s sectional is by Patricia Urquiola for B&B Italia, the cocktail table is

by RH, Restoration Hardware, and the rug is by Armadillo. The artwork is

by Jeremy Blake.

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Roberto Lugo, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Ini Archibong, Tourmaline, and Jomo Tariku inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

HISTORY

A new period room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an imagined Black home in New York City.

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In November, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened “Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room.” The exhibition, on view for two years, draws inspiration from the Black literary and cultural tradition that became known as Afrofuturism, which used science fiction and fantasy to imagine bold futures free of the legacy of racism. The room is the first of its kind for the museum, whose period rooms include grand European interiors and reconstructions of early American life, but very few things, until now, that nod to African or African American interior design and domestic culture. A project like this is inherently complex, in both its goals and its execution; it includes the work of about a dozen Black and Latino artists and designers (turn the page to see some of their contributions). The Met also enlisted the collaboration of several external players, including Black Panther production designer Hannah Beachler and scholar Michelle D. Commander, Ph.D., whose work centers on slavery and memory. The show references the very real histories of gentrification and erasure in Black communities across New York City, but is it possible to do that in an institution inextricably linked to that past? We asked art critic, writer, and former Met staffer Kimberly Drew to take a stroll through this period room of the future—and to parse its meaning in the present.

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community in New York City called Seneca Village was razed to the ground to create Central Park. Built three decades earlier on a stretch of land between West 82nd and 89th Streets, on which churches, houses, schools, and cemeteries sat, it was seized by the city through eminent domain. Now, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, due east of the site, a period room called “Before Yesterday We Could Fly” has been unveiled—one which sets out to ask: What if this community had had the opportunity to grow and thrive?

For those who have never wandered past the Egyptian Temple of Dendur or the seemingly endless maze of European painting and sculpture galleries, the Met is also known for its early-American period rooms. According to the museum’s website, “period rooms capture how people lived in the past, revealing the historical fashions and values of different eras.” They have the power to illustrate narratives informed by the past, but what happens when a period room is inspired by a speculative future?

“Before Yesterday” is constructed with what the literary scholar and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman, Ph.D., has defined as “critical fabulation,” or the practice of telling an “impossible story while also amplifying the impossibility of its telling.” The exercise coined by Hartman is the work of overlaying historical gaps with imaginative narrative building. This practice stems from the reality that the everyday lives of Black people have often been underdocumented or plainly ignored. The oldest existing photographs of New York City, for example, date to 1853— 82

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four years before the destruction of Seneca Village—and yet there are no known images of the community or the various buildings therein. This means that until relics like bone toothbrushes, Chinese porcelain, and iron tea kettles were exhumed by archaeologists in 2011, it had been almost completely forgotten by the public.

When entering the space, your journey begins in a fictional living room.

Adorned with a stunning chandelier by industrial designer Ini Archibong and furniture pieces by a host of Black designers, including Jomo Tariku and Yinka Ilori, the room ties together objects that might have made up the decor of a descendant of the original Seneca community, had it survived to this day. As you explore, it’s hard to suspend reality because in the real and present day, there is a well-documented decline in Black homeownership across New York City. Yes, this fictional resident may have inherited their home, but who is to say that they would have been able to weather decades of racist machinations since? On one hand, I want to be optimistic and revel in the beauty of what’s being presented, but it’s hard not to be cynical, especially when there are no other period rooms in the museum that show real homes or rooms inhabited by Black people. Why not reconstruct Harlem Renaissance painter Augusta Savage’s atelier or partner with the estate of America’s first female self-made millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker? What does it mean to apply speculative fiction in lieu of creating a room based in the reality of Black life in New York?

The allure of the room is clear. At a time when there is a hyper-focus on Black life and “getting it right” institutionally, it is no mystery that a museum like the Met would find something meaty in this query. In the global consciousness that arose in the aftermath of the brutal police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and far too many others, we have seen an acknowledgment of holidays like Juneteenth and an explosion of interest in the art market for works by Black artists. And yet it can be hard to hold on to the warm fuzzy feeling that comes from increased awareness and conversations about inclusion when projects like this feel far more whimsical than the subject matter might call for.

There will undoubtedly be many people who will visit this period room and revel in the possibilities it explores.

The period room as curatorial exercise is always one where reality meets speculative fiction, but as with any other museum display, context is everything. ◾

Inside the “Before Yesterday We Could Fly” period room, which includes works by Yinka Ilori, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Chuma Maweni, Atang Tshikare, and Tourmaline. metmuseum.org

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A survey of some of the original pieces in the Met Museum’s new Afrofuturist Period Room.

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NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY The artist and 2017 MacArthur fellow used collage and photo transfer to create Thriving and Potential, Displaced (Again and Again and...), a wallcovering that envelops the period room. Crosby is no stranger to interiors; the Nigerian-American’s recent work includes a mural for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 2018, depicting a colorful living room with wallpaper of its own.

At the Met, her design provides a cohesive background to the variegated works on display.

ROBERTO LUGO ATANG TSHIKARE Tswana artist Atang Tshikare created the delicate Mollo oa Leifo-Mme chairs in collaboration with furniture manufacturer Casamento. The pieces evoke nights spent by a hearth, recounting the folklore of Tshikare’s Bantu compatriots.

The delicate grass back was woven by Butha-Buthe weavers from Lesotho and is encircled by singed beech and rubber wood. The ends of the weaving are left loose, quivering from the back of the chair—a rustle recalling the ghosts and mythological creatures that inspire much of Tshikare’s work.

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Originally a graffiti artist, Puerto Rican–American Roberto Lugo now translates his tags, along with the faces of celebrities, living and dead, onto hand-thrown ceramics.

Colonial and diasporic traditions meet in bright forms, with Lugo’s subjects framed by squiggles, swirls, and stripes in bold glazes.

Archibong’s optimistic view of the future and the domestic necessities of lived space.

LUGO: JULIA LEHMAN, COURTESY OF WEXLER GALLERY: TARIKU, TSHIK ARE: COURTESY OF THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

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INI ARCHIBONG The Nigerian-American artist has dissected space through design for more than a decade. One of his pieces at the Met, Vernus Chandelier 3, follows in this tradition, using handblown glass in bold tones and galvanized steel. The Orion Table (above) incorporates similar materials and construction. The pieces in the period room marry

Design’s king of cheer, Ilori has made a name for himself creating everything from basketball courts to flamingoshaped playground rockers. In the period room is a piece by the Nigerian-British artist entitled Iya Ati Omo, which means “mother and child” in Yoruba. The piece is from a series of found works to which he gave new life with vivid colors and wax-print upholstery. The chair’s inclusion in the period room brings Ilori’s public space–minded work into a domestic context, circling seamlessly back to the childhood memories that still inspire his practice today.

ZIZIPHO POSWA The South African potter calls on her Xhosa heritage in colorful, hand-built ceramics, distinguished by heavily textured surfaces. The several pieces on display are early works from Poswa’s studio, Imiso, meaning “tomorrow” in Xhosa. The name is fitting, as the period room’s aim is to envision a bright new future where equity abounds.

JOMO TARIKU For his Mido chair, the designer used modern bentwood techniques in a larger-than-life Afro pick that serves a different function. The Kenyanborn, Ethiopian-American artist pulls on his rich cultural background, combining an African American visual vernacular with the precision of ancient Ethiopian architecture. With its directness and ease, Tariku’s work contributes greatly to the African contemporary design lexicon.

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Bougainvillea frames the front facade of Herb Sambol’s 1920s Palm Beach bungalow, which was renovated by the architect Lee F. Mindel.

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Accustomed to designing houses up to 80,000 square feet, architect Lee F. Mindel makes the most of 800 in his enthusiastic redo of a client’s home—just a stone’s throw from the gargantuan villas of Palm Beach.

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Herb Sambol decamped from Manhattan to a tiny Palm Beach bungalow, he was trying it on for size—literally, and without even realizing it. Already the owner of two stunning homes in New York (a 1,700-square-foot aerie in a Richard Meier–designed glass-and-steel downtown tower, as well as a four-bedroom Sag Harbor residence), the real estate entrepreneur was not shopping for a third home, much less one the size of a studio apartment. But the “cozy cabin,” a short drive from the stable where Sambol keeps two horses, grew on him. At the end of his rental period, when he heard it was going on the market, he asked the owners to sell it to him.

Sambol enlisted architect Lee F. Mindel, with whom he’d worked on severa l apartments over 25 years, to help him reimagine the seaside getaway, which had knotty wood walls and a low ceiling. “I’ve done 80,000squa re-foot homes, a nd 8,000-square-foot homes, but not 800,” says Mindel, whose soft-spoken manner and conversational detours about everything from 1950s doo-wop to Dutch still-life paintings belie his status as one of New York’s most in-demand architects. “It’s a very humble project,” he adds, “but humble can be majestic.”

Indeed, the modest bungalow tells a Palm Beach tale that’s slightly different from the backstories of its neighboring ultraamenitized palazzos. Like the surrounding structures on Root Trail, a charming block-long enclave by the sea known for its bohemian vibe (Mr. Margaritaville himself, Jimmy Buffett, has a house on the street), the place was originally constructed to shelter the workers who labored on the town’s jazz-age mansions. “It was very upstairs, downstairs—and sideways,” Mindel says of the project, which he landed in the early days of the pandemic.

Unable to travel to the property at the time, he and his team had no other choice but to rely on the magic of FaceTime. With his contractor Jason Shinn masked up and socially distanced, Sambol climbed ladders with a tape measure in hand, reporting dimensions via iPhone to Mindel and his architectural designer (and husband) Jose Marty.

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tical, no item superfluous. “It’s like when you’re on a ship or a train, everything has to be functional,” says Mindel. “But those are some of the nicest places—think Orient Express.”

The remit was as simple and challenging as a Zen koan: Pare it down, level up. The answer—a home as weightless and happy as a cartwheel—started with knocking out the attic, which gave the place a cathedral-like envelope. Rebuilding the walls was another game-changing transformation. While the three main rooms stayed intact, the shells around them were reconfigured to enable flow.

The bedroom, for instance, is now accessible by a doorway in the back of the house rather than one in the middle of the living area, which h ad g iven it a sl ig ht ly Homeowner col le ge - dor m itor y fe el .

Herb Sambol with his border And the multitasking living terrier, Jack. space—call it a great room, or do as Mindel does and refer to it as “a living room, a guest bedroom, a dining room, and a kitchen”—feels far more intentional, not to mention intelligent.

The end-to-end sofas do double duty as guest beds, beneath which sliding boxes function as extra storage space for visitors. Much of the furniture is meant to be moved around, or folded up and hung on walls when Sambol doesn’t need outdoor seating (in keeping with the home’s modest intentions, the maximum patio capacity is four).

“We were focused on getting it to the bare essence and not overdoing it,” says Grace Sierra, director of interiors for Mindel’s firm, who took charge of sourci n g t he re st r a i ne d a nd happy decor. Notable players are the pair of Popsicle-bright paintings by contemporary Dutch artist Thomas Trum that hang over the daybeds and their counterpart near the sofa.

Instead of a wall mirror, Mindel chose a silver orb lamp that throws light around the already sunlight-flooded residence.

Root Trail homes are shoulder-to-shoulder, which means a sense of community is baked in. Privacy? Not so much.

Working with the outdoor space—some patches of which were a mere two feet wide—Mindel created a bracket of hedges, encircling the house in an external layer and creating something of a secret garden out back.

Sambol takes his coffee every morning out there, along with his dog, Jack. “I know it’s a modest home, but I have the opposite experience when I’m there,” he says. “It feels spacious and open, which are qualities that are hard to find in even a much larger house.” ◾

In the dining room, the console from Design Within Reach is topped with vintage lamps from Bacchus Antik in Stockholm.

The pendant is by Flos, and the artwork is by Nightshop.

In the living room, the chairs and cocktail tables are from Hemisphere, the sofa is by RH, Restoration Hardware, and the armoire is by Crate & Barrel. The daybed is by Hästens, and the floor lamps are by Flos (left) and Gandia Blasco (right). The artwork is by Thomas Trum.

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“It’s a very humble project—but humble can be majestic.”

LEE F. MINDEL

The primary bedroom’s bed and linens are by Hästens, the Design Within Reach side tables are topped with vintage travertine lamps by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, and the 19th-century watercolors are by David Roberts. OPPOSITE: In the living room, a side table by Serena & Lily separates a pair of daybeds by Hästens, the vintage molded plywood chair is by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for Knoll, and the vintage stools are by Barry Simpson. A collection of coral lines a high shelf above artwork by Thomas Trum.

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THAT’S A WRAP This packing strategy might not be TSA-approved, but it is your passport to the high-style club.

FROM TOP: Cartier Sixième Sens necklace in 18-karat white gold with onyx, turquoise, emeralds, chalcedonies, sapphires, and diamonds; cartier .com. David Webb Asheville bracelet and earrings in 18-karat gold and platinum with turquoise, blue chalcedony, marquise cabochon sapphires, and diamonds; necklace in 18-karat gold and platinum with jade, black enamel, and diamonds; davidwebb.com.

UNBOX MY HEART Deciding what to take is a journey unto itself. Choose and pack wisely—or forever hold your piece.

CLOC K WISE FROM TOP LE F T: Van Cleef & Arpels Poussières d’Éclairs necklace in 18-karat white gold with rubellites, sapphires, and diamonds; vancleefarpels.com. Oui Fringe earrings in 18-karat yellow and white gold; musexmuse.com.

Buccellati Myosotis necklace in white gold with diamonds, tourmalines, and tsavorites; Astrantia earrings in white and yellow gold with diamonds, tourmalines, and kunzites; buccellati.com. Hemmerle earrings in aluminum, silver, and white gold with peridot, tourmalines, and demantoids; hemmerle .com. Van Cleef & Arpels Aspiration Astrale ring in platinum and 18-karat white gold with emerald, rubies, and diamonds; vancleefarpels.com.

ON A ROLL

Get yourself in sync on arrival with a selection of timepieces that tick all the right boxes.

CLOC K WISE FROM LE F T: Breguet Tradition 7035 in 18-karat rose gold with diamonds, pink sapphires, rubies, and mother of pearl and a strap in deep pink alligator; Reine de Naples in 18-karat white gold with strap in blue alligator, rose gold with strap in orange alligator, and diamonds and white gold with mother of pearl; breguet.com.

Chanel Sapphires Stripes Ring in 18-karat white gold with sapphire and diamonds; chanel.com.

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ROOM SERVICE Bound or bottled, serious glam always delivers.

Tip accordingly.

FROM TOP: Chanel Sapphire Stripes watch in 18-karat white gold with sapphires and diamonds; chanel.com. Van Cleef & Arpels Rubin Cosmique necklace in 18-karat rose and white gold with diamonds; vancleefarpels.com.

Pomellato Sabbia necklace in 18-karat rose gold with brown, white, and black diamonds; pomellato.com.

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PARTY DOWN Live in the lap of luxury with fine gems spread on a gold-dressed bed.

CLOC K WISE FROM LE F T: Temple St. Clair Garden necklace with tanzanite, aquamarines, green and pink tourmalines, tsavorites, blue moonstones, and diamonds; templestclair.com.

Graff Tribal ring in white gold with diamonds; Tilda’s Bow necklace in white gold with emeralds and diamonds; graff.com.

HUSH, HUSH

Stack up your stones, then stock up on earplugs to keep the mayhem to a minimum— cocktail optional.

FROM TOP: Audemars Piguet Royal Oak “Jumbo” Extra-Thin watch in 18-karat white gold with sapphire crystal and diamonds; audemarspiguet .com. Roberto Coin Sauvage rings in 18-karat rose gold with diamonds and with malachite; Gourmette bracelet in 18-karat white gold with diamonds; Carnaby Street ring in 18-karat rose gold with blue lapis and diamonds; robertocoin.com.

A STAR IS BORN Or better yet, a whole constellation— preferably presented on a sterling silver tray.

Serve with a nightcap.

CLOC K WISE FROM TOP: David Yurman Star necklace and Star Shadow chandelier drop earrings in 18-karat white gold with diamonds; Genesis Star hoop earrings in 18-karat white gold with diamonds; davidyurman.com.

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TO THE LIGHTHOUSE

On England’s windswept Norfolk coast, architect Sally Mackereth converts a former watchtower into a stylish family getaway topped by a lantern room with views for miles.

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The lookout atop Julian Vogel’s retreat in a late19th-century lighthouse in Winterton-on-Sea, England, which was renovated by the London architect Sally Mackereth.

The leather sofa is topped with pillows and a throw from the White Company, the vintage metal cabinet is from Alfies Antique Market in London, and the walls are covered in felt by Johanna Daimer. The slate floors and the sign are original to the house. For details, see Resources.

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sh ips n av ig at i n g t he Norfolk coast of England would look for signals emanating from the lantern room at the summit of the windswept village of Wi nter ton-on-Sea .

Today, the domed space w it h it s w rapa rou nd seating is the favorite perch of Julian Vogel, the English CEO of the brand communications agency ModusBPCM, who 15 years ago purchased the lighthouse as a getaway home for his family. “For me, the winter, even with the wind and rain, is just as wonderful as summer,” says Vogel, who also cofounded the online tableware retailer Maison Margaux. “The walls are so thick you feel cosseted from the elements. And you can really take in those big Norfolk skies up here.”

Vogel was initially drawn to Norfolk, on the east coast of England, because of its 90 -odd miles of unspoiled beaches and its quaint vibe. The county is best known for its man-made system of waterways, the Norfolk Broads—listen to David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” for a cool name-check—with its navigable rivers and lakes that draw everything from leisure boats to racing yachts. The area is also home to the Queen’s country retreat at Sandringham. “There are no big motorways to get here,” Vogel observes, “so it feels a bit off the beaten track.”

The lighthouse’s immediate locale is dominated by great rolling sand dunes blanketed in marram grass with a smattering of idiosyncratic holiday cottages with round thatched roofs.

The structure had already been converted into a residence in the 1970s, but by the time Vogel bought it, it was in sore need of restoration. The original glass lantern had been sold in the early 1920s and sent to the Bahamas, and during World War II the tower was requisitioned as a lookout by the British Armed Forces.

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rior designer Sally Mackereth (who happens to be Vogel’s former spouse) transformed the structure into a cozy contemporary home. “The challenge was how to create a relaxed family space while retaining the charmingly utilitarian character of the old place,” Mackereth says. What her firm, Studio Mackereth, knows so well—and especially here—is when to leave historical buildings alone. If something needs to be replaced or modernized, she will proceed, but not before first letting heritage breathe. “Sally is also great at historical research and noticed that an earlier lighthouse on this site had been mentioned in Robinson Crusoe,” Vogel says. “We also found a map showing that something would have been here in the Elizabethan age too.”

Mackereth created a natural vertical f low for the tower, beginning with a first-floor living room where the family—Vogel and Mackereth’s daughter Lola is 20, and son Oscar is 18—gathers to watch movies. A flight up the original cantilevered stone staircase leads to the kids’ dorm-style bedroom, which is fitted with custom curved bunk beds. On the third floor, the sliding timber door of the primary bedroom hangs from a metal track attached to the original riveted steel beam. The fourth-floor library is snug with its dark brown scheme, floor-toceiling bookshelves, a nd folding

guest bed. Keep climbing and at last one reaches the lantern room, which features original slate f looring and extraordinary views. But Mackereth couldn’t help but take the structure to even further heights: A brief flight of new floating stairs leads to a semicircular sleeping deck with a 360-degree panorama.

At the base of the tower, she also designed a timber-clad addition to create more family space: an open-plan kitchen, dining, and living area as well as a shower room and family bath. “The design here is in deliberate contrast to the heavy masonry of the original tower,” says Mackereth, who installed a curved glass skylight in the kitchen’s ceiling. “It resolved a tricky connection point where the new box plugs into the old base,” she notes. “It also affords a magnificent view from the kitchen sink, looking upward to the lantern at the top of this vast, sturdy sentinel of the sea.”

From the kitchen, new steel bifold doors lead out to a landscaped garden

by Chris Moss. “There’s a firepit in the garden, so when it’s cold, we love to huddle around at night with cashmere blankets and hot chocolate,” Vogel says. “Mornings are beautifully misty too, the perfect time to wander with a mug of tea to check on my alliums and Queen of Night tulip bulbs, which I plant every fall.” ◾

On the tower’s ground floor, a living area has a sofa by B&B Italia, an ottoman by the White Company, and an antique English chest. The rug is by Missoni Home, the ceiling light is by Jean Prouvé, and the salvaged letters are from Retrouvius. OPPOSITE: The back of the lighthouse overlooks the Winterton dunes.

The vintage table and chairs in the kitchen are

by Ercol, and the glassware is from Vogel’s company Maison Margaux.

The wood-burning stove is by Morsø.

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In the second-floor bedroom, the chair is in the Shaker style, and the artwork (right) is by Rob Ryan.

The curved bunk room has an Ercol stool. The door is painted in Oak Apple

by Fired Earth.

The main family bathroom’s sink and fittings are by Vola, and the watercolor is by Alastair Hall.

The bunk room’s beds were designed to fit the rounded walls. The artwork is

by Ian Dunlop.

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READING THE CLASSICS On Menorca, Spanish designer Lorenzo Castillo looks to the island’s layered history to bring new life to an 18th-century villa above the sea.

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The drawing room of an 18th-century home on the Spanish island of Menorca that was restored

by Lorenzo Castillo. The custom sofas are in a GP & J Baker fabric, the custom ottoman is in a Christopher Farr stripe, the cocktail table is by Cazaux, and the lamps are from Rue Vintage 74.

The Napoleon III Carrara mantel was reclaimed from a Neapolitan palace, and the canvas artwork is by Vivian Suter. For details, see Resources.

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to the residents of Mahón, a storied town on the Spanish island of Menorca. In an 18th-century villa on one of the oldest streets in town, this seaside symphony weaves seamlessly through layers of history. The house was most recently rehabilitated by the Madrid-based designer Lorenzo Castillo for one of his longtime clients. “Above everything, Lorenzo is an antiques dealer,” says the man, who has commissioned 10 projects from Castillo over the last two decades. “Because of this, he is very coherent in how he blends fabrics and furniture. The house in Menorca is a mishmash of things, but there is a connecting thread.”

In this instance, the client, a father of four who lives in London and Madrid, proved a congenial copycat; he asked Castillo to find him a summer house similar to the designer’s own retreat in Menorca. Castillo did one better and found his client a house on his very own street. For the designer, there is no better place. “Even the color of the water here is unique, changing from turquoise to deep green depending on the color of the sand,” Castillo says of the island’s allure. “I wanted to incorporate all of the feelings and sensations you get from being here through color, layering, mixing patterns, and natural materials.”

Apart from its stunning natural setting, Menorca’s draw owes much to its rich history. The island, which is Lorenzo Castillo with his dachshund, Tana.

OPPOSITE: The dining room’s Willy Rizzo tables and Maison Jansen chairs are all vintage, the Qing dynasty cabinet is from Isabel Martínez, and the bronze and crystal pendants are custom.

a UNESCO World Heritage site, has long been a lure for outsiders, playing host to the ancient Greeks and Romans as well as the Muslim caliphs who occupied the Iberian Peninsula in the 10th century. Later, Menorca switched hands among the English, French, and Spanish due to a succession of wars and treaties, leaving traces of influences from Georgian to Regency to Castilian. In this melting pot of periods and places, Castillo concocted a delicate confection of a home informed by his background as an art historian, dealer, and designer. “The first time I saw the house it was in its pristine original state,” he marvels. “We started with a long restoration, unearthing the old wall colors where we could, and replacing wood beams only where necessary.” Floors that could not be saved were retiled, setting a neutral base for patterned textiles. Lighting came next, followed by contemporary art and antiques of the sort that only an expert like Castillo could secure during a pandemic.

His client needed a home that could accommodate intimate family gatherings as well as large convivial celebrations. Castillo added bedrooms above the old stables and on the home’s lower level to host a never-ending string of guests. In the light of day these lucky visitors mingle with the homeowner and his children in the home’s public spaces, where the blue and white palette reflects the dappled light of the harbor of Mahón, which the house overlooks.

Breaking up the oceanic hues are tomato reds, tart ochers, and earthy mustards, along with greens that slip in by way of art and collections of malachite and maiolica.

Some of the most beautiful colors in the home lay hidden from view: In the dining room, Castillo carefully unveiled the underlying Georgian stucco work on the walls—a trace of England’s involvement in Menorca—which provided a backdrop for 18th-century plates from Valencia, Spain.

The relatively spare room, which is Castillo’s favorite space in the house, centers on a pair of Willy Rizzo tables surrounded by ivory-hued Maison Jansen chairs.

Pattern play abounds in the home, making what could have been a very intimidating interior quite the opposite: inviting and casual. Leopard print turns up in almost every space, together with antique Persian rugs and curtains in Castillo’s own fabric collection. These lush designs are paired with natural materials like cane and rattan, along with antique furnishings featuring such intricate detailing as marquetry and inlay work.

With all of Castillo’s interventions, the home’s beauty still relies heavily on its 18th-century architecture. The entry is graced by a generous sandstone staircase with its original iron railing—“something very unusual, because most staircases from this period were later changed to newer marble,” Castillo remarks. Taking the history of the house as his starting point, he continued a narrative of cross-pollination and well-balanced maximalism. “The mix of styles is very evident in Menorca,” says Castillo, who manages to transform the island’s epochal history into a design that is cohesive and comfortable, nodding to tradition but rooted in the present. “Menorca is the richest cultural and intellectual island in the Mediterranean,” says Castillo, “and its homes deserve a very complex style, full of layers, meaning, and drama!” ◾ ELLE DECOR

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The kitchen’s custom island has an oak top and is painted in Farrow & Ball’s India Yellow, the gilt bronze chandelier is from a palace in Madrid, and the backsplash and stove are clad in blue and white tiles from Andalusia, Spain.

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The first-floor sitting room doubles as a guest bedroom, with a custom daybed upholstered in a patchwork of fabrics from GP & J Baker, Lewis & Wood, and Castillo’s own textile collection for Gastón y Daniela, available from Kravet. The custom side table was painted to mimic malachite, the Renaissancestyle, mid-20th-century rug is from Real Fábrica de Tapices, and the ceiling was scraped back to the original colors.

In a boy’s room, a velvet from the designer’s collection covers the bed and the room divider, the 1970s rattan chair is Spanish, and the Louis XVI–style bedside table is antique; the 19thcentury Caucasian rug is from Abalarte auctions. OPPOSITE: A 1960s sunburst mirror from Madrid’s El Rastro flea market hangs in the stairwell; the 18th-century staircase is sandstone.

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A new terrace takes advantage of the home’s view of the harbor of Mahón. The sofa and armchairs’ cushions are in one of Castillo’s striped fabrics, and the ottoman is covered in antique rugs and a Pierre Frey leopard print. The antique fountain came from a house in Toulouse, France. OPPOSITE , TOP: In the primary bathroom, the vanity was fashioned from a mahogany Regency chest, the 19th-century mirror is Venetian, and the doors and windows are painted in Farrow & Ball’s Stiffkey Blue. OPPOSITE , BOT TOM: The primary bedroom’s custom headboard is covered in an antique ikat and a Güell Lamadrid stripe, the Art Deco sofa is French, and the Maison Jansen bench is from Isabel Martínez. The chandelier is custom, the antique rugs are Persian, and the 18th-century engravings are French and Spanish.

RESOURCES STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT & CIRCULATION HOUSE CALL Interior design: Carlos David, carlosdavid.com.

PAGE 38: Sofa: Wyeth, wyeth.nyc.

Sofa linen: Holland & Sherry, holland andsherry.com. Chair: Knoll, knoll .com. Cocktail table: Magen H Gallery, magenxxcentury.com.

Rug: Carlos David, carlosdavid.com.

PAGE 40: Stool: Maison Gerard, maisongerard.com. Artwork: Brendan Smith, brendansmithstudio .com. Shelves: Vitsoe, vitsoe.com.

Artworks: Donald Sultan, donald sultanstudio.com. PAGE 42: Sofa linen: Holland & Sherry. Ottoman fabric: Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.

Banquette and wallcovering: Thevenon, thevenon1908.com.

Dining chair fabric: Pierre Frey.

PAGE 44: Sink: Villeroy & Boch, villeroy-boch.com. Fittings and wall tiles: Waterworks, waterworks.com.

Wallcovering: mayaromanoff.com.

Sconce: Circa Lighting, circalighting .com. Wallcovering: Ralph Lauren Home, ralphlaurenhome.com.

Pendant: Design Within Reach, dwr.com. Curtain fabric: Loro Piana, loropiana.com. Photograph: Stuart Winecoff, stuartwinecoff.com.

FURNITURE FANTASY PAGES 62–63: Coat: Louis Vuitton, louisvuitton.com. Boots: Hunter, hunterboots.com. Coat: Berluti, berluti.com. Sweater: Salvatore Ferragamo, ferragamo.com.

Pants: Dolce & Gabbana, dolce gabbana.com. Turtleneck: Dior Men, dior.com. Shoes: Giuseppe Zanotti, giuseppezanotti.com. Jacket: Dior Men. Scarf and pants: Dries Van Noten, driesvannoten.com.

Sunglasses: Louis Vuitton. Boots: Hunter. Jacket and skirt: Tod’s, tods .com. Shirt: Dries Van Noten. Boots: Louis Vuitton. Bangles: Hermès, hermes.com. PAGES 64–65: Hat: Prada, prada.com. Coat and turtleneck: Jason Wu, jasonwustudio .com. Dresses: Erdem, erdem.com.

Shoes: Giuseppe Zanotti, giuseppe zanotti.com. Socks: Hue, hue.com.

Belt: Christian Dior, dior.com.

Ring: Cartier, cartier.com. Necklace: Dolce & Gabbana. Sweater: Missoni, missoni.com. Pants: Casablanca, casablancaparis.com. Shoes: Louis Vuitton. Ring: Tiffany & Co., tiffany .com. Shirt: Fendi, fendi.com. Skirt: Nina Ricci, ninaricci.com. Boots: Tibi, tibi.com. Turtleneck: Ganni, ganni.com. Ring: Vanessa’s Vintage, vanessasvintage.com.

Earrings: Ulla Johnson, ullajohnson .com. Socks: Hue. Jacket: Thom Browne, thombrowne.com. Shirt and pants: Dsquared2, dsquared2.com.

Blazer, hat, shorts, and shoes: Thom Browne. Shirt: Aknvas, aknvas.com.

PAGES 66–67: Blazer and shoes: Dsquared2. Sweater vest and turtleneck: Hermès, hermes.com.

Pants: Tod’s. Ring: Tiffany & Co. Cardigan: Zadig & Voltaire, zadig-etvoltaire.com. Sweater: Tod’s. Pants: Paul Smith, paulsmith.com. Shirt and shoes: Louis Vuitton. Blazer and top: Gucci, gucci.com. Dress: Faith Connexion, faithconnexion.com.

Throw: Dior Men. Ring: Versace, versace.com. Suit: Gucci. Shirt: Dolce & Gabbana. Shoes: Sebago, sebago-usa.com.

OCULUS QUEST Interior design: Kovac Design Studio, kovacdesignstudio.com.

PAGES 72–73: Foamed aluminum: Alusion, alusion.com. PAGES 74–75: Chairs and stool: Knoll, knoll.com.

Daybed: B&B Italia, bebitalia.com.

Sectional: Gloster, gloster.com.

Grill: Wolf, subzero-wolf.com.

Bench: Design Within Reach, dwr .com. PAGES 76–77: Bed: Jesse, jesse.it.

Sofa: Studio Piet Boon, pietboon .com. Side table: Luca Nichetto, nichettostudio.com. Desk: BoConcept, boconcept.com.

Chair: Knoll. Armchairs: Poliform, poliform.it. Side table: Setsu & Shinobu Ito, studioito.com. Artwork: Jake Longstreth, jakelongstreth.com.

Tub: Agape, agapedesign.it. Sink fittings: Axor, axor-design.com.

Stool: Frama, framacph.com.

PAGES 78–79: Stools: RH, Restoration Hardware, rh.com. Curtains: Whiting & Davis, whitinganddavis .com. Sectional fabric: Maharam, maharam.com. Sectional: B&B Italia.

Cocktail table: RH, Restoration Hardware. Rug: Armadillo, armadillo-co.com.

THE MEASURE OF THINGS Architecture: Lee F. Mindel, sheltonmindel.com.

PAGES 88–89: Console: Design Within Reach, dwr.com. Lamps: Bacchus Antik, bacchusantik.com. Pendant: Flos, flos.com. Artwork: Nightshop, intothenightshop.nl. PAGES 90–91: Chairs and cocktail tables: Hemisphere, hemispheregallery.com.

Sofa: RH, Restoration Hardware, rh .com. Armoire: Crate & Barrel, crate andbarrel.com. Daybed: Hästens, hastens.com. Floor lamps: Flos;

Gandia Blasco, gandiablasco .com. Artwork: Thomas Trum, thomastrum.nl. PAGES 92–93: Bed and linens: Hästens.

Side tables: Design Within Reach. Side table: Serena & Lily, serenaandlily.com. Daybeds: Hästens. Chair: Knoll, knoll.com.

Artwork: Thomas Trum.

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE Interior design: Studio Mackereth, studiomackereth .com.

PAGES 102–103: Pillows and throw: The White Company, thewhitecompany.com.

Cabinet: Alfies Antique Market, alfiesantiques.com.

Wallcovering: Johanna Daimer, daimer-filze.com.

PAGES 104–105: Sofa: B&B Italia, bebitalia.com. Ottoman: The White Company. Rug: Missoni Home, missoni.com. Letters: Retrouvius, retrouvius.com.

PAGES 106–107: Table and chairs: Ercol, ercol.com.

Tableware: The White Company. Glassware: Maison Margaux, maison margauxltd.com. Stove: Morsø, morsoe.com. Artwork: Rob Ryan, robryanstudio.com. Sink and fittings: Vola, vola.com.

Stool: Ercol. Rug: The White Company. Door paint: Fired Earth, firedearth.com. Artwork: Ian Dunlop, iandunlopart.com.

READING THE CLASSICS Interior design: Lorenzo Castillo, lorenzocastillo.org.

PAGES 108–109: Sofa fabric: GP & J Baker, gpjbaker.com.

Ottoman fabric: Christopher Farr, christopherfarr.com.

Lamps: Rue Vintage 74, ruevintage74.com.

PAGES 110–111: Cabinet: Isabel Martínez, isabelmartinez antiguedades.com.

PAGES 112–113: Island paint: Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.

Daybed fabrics: GP & J Baker; Lewis & Wood, lewisandwood .co.uk; Kravet, kravet.com.

Rug: Real Fábrica de Tapices, realfabricadetapices.com.

PAGES 116–117: Ottoman fabric: Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.

Door and window paint: Farrow & Ball. Headboard fabric: Güell Lamadrid, guell-lamadrid.grupolamadrid .com. Bench: Isabel Martínez.

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